Flight number record
AA 2084
American Airlines · Orlando to Philadelphia
- Route
- MCO → PHL
- Departs
- 11:52
- Flights
- 278
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2084, check with American Airlines.
AA 2084 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 278 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2084 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 55 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.80%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 278 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 2084 flies
AA 2084 flies MCO to PHL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:52, used on 42 of 278 flights, with 10:36 (42 flights) and 11:44 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:5242 flights15.1%
- Departs 10:3642 flights15.1%
- Departs 11:4437 flights13.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 11:52 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 2084 runs 7 points worse at 72.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 2084 next to MCO to PHL
Every carrier on MCO to PHL combined arrived on time 72.2% of the time across 5,332 flights, so AA 2084 is about level with it. American flew 2,582 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2084thin sample | 278 | 72.1% | 78 min | 1.80% | C |
| All American Airlines on MCO–PHL | 2,582 | 75.3% | 93 min | 2.17% | B |
| All carriers on MCO–PHL | 5,332 | 72.2% | 85 min | 2.27% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2084 quarter by quarter
AA 2084 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 60.9%, a swing of 35 points on roughly 70 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202564 flights60.9%
- Oct–Dec 202582 flights67.5%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights72.3%
- Apr–Jun 202645 flights95.6%
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2084 did best on Tuesday at 85.4% on time and worst on Friday at 64.1%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2084 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 5,912 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
61% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,912 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 41 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 5,912 delay minutes reported on AA 2084.
Cancellations sit at 1.80% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.36%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 862 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including PHL to MCO (204), CLT to MCO (41) and MCO to CLT (41), but none flew often enough under AA 2084 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to PHL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 278 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking AA 2084
For a booking, read AA 2084 as 72.1% on time with 1.80% cancelled over 278 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to PHL, every carrier and departure
- PHL to MCO, the return direction
- American Airlines 2502 on the same route58.9%
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Philadelphia International (PHL) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
A flight number here means American Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.